Recently Arrested For Dwi - Was Not Impaired.

Hello,

I am in the state of Texas. Recently, I was pulled over for doing 9 mph over. I was keeping with the flow of traffic. I have Crohn's disease, and use CBD whenever my flareups become severe. I had half of a CBD cigarette in my car at the time I was pulled over. I purchased it at a store here in town. They did a field sobriety test, which I feel was poorly administered. On the roadside, I was failed on one criteria (that being my eyes crossed when instructed to focus on his finger when it was roughly an inch from my face,) and I was arrested on a D.W.I. When I was arrested, the officer asked if I had any guns in my car. I had a pistol in my car, which is legal for me to own and was stored in accordance with the law. I was told he was not worried about the pistol.

Once I got booked at the jail, a second sobriety test was done. It was my first experience with it, but I think I could reasonably call the officer's competency into question if I have to go to court. It took him over 3 minutes to palpate a pulse in my wrist because he was doing it wrong, and I'm pretty sure he made up the heart rate results. He said it was 130, 120 and 110 each time he took it. I find it unlikely that it dropped by a perfect 10 BPM with each subsequent take. He took my blood pressure, placing the BP cuff improperly (and verbalizing he did so, he said he was "looking for my veins", those cuffs go over the brachial artery) and got the result of a textbook perfect 120/80. I know my usual blood pressure, it is higher than this, and I would argue that a BP of 120/80 with a heart rate of 130 is almost a physiological impossibility.

I called the bail bondsman in jail and only then learned of my charges; a DWI and Unlawful Possession of a Firearm. I think the UPF is secondary to the DWI. I had asked the cop when he arrested me if I'd be able to get out of jail in time for a test the next morning. He said if I passed the FST at the station I'd be able to go pick up my car that night (LOL I was naive, though I managed to make it and take the test on 26 hours no sleep)

Anyways, how should I approach this going forwards? This has interfered with my academics, and I am currently appealing a STRONG decision my school made. I called the DA's office she had not yet accepted the case 2 days after my arrest. It is a weekend and I will call back and ask on Tuesday. I question whether or not she actually will. I feel like if she watches at least some of the body cam footage from my arrest she'd realize it would not be an easy case to fight should I lawyer up. Though I'd be willing to take any type of deal with her just to get it off my record ASAP so that I may resume my academics. Ideally she refuses to accept the case while my appeal with my school is ongoing. That would really bode well for me.

What do yall think? I live in a college town where the police are infamous for behaving in a predatorial manner to the students. The jail was over-booked. I was booked at 10 PM and wasn't given any paperwork or ability to call someone until about 3 AM. I hear court dates are almost half a year out, and the crowd in that jail looked much rougher than students. Without knowing the local prosecutors, do yall think it is likely my case will actually be accepted? Do you think I have strong grounds to fight the DWI charge should I need to? My ideal scenario is that the DA just doesn't take the case or maybe I can make a deal to get the charges dropped. I'd be willing to accept probation, PITA that it is, just to get my academics back on track.